As a Lead Career Consultant, I maintained all of the responsibilities of my previous Career Consultant role, in addition to leadership opportunities, such as supervision and mentoring.I supervised the office’s Career Development Intern (CDI) Program, which included five to six undergraduate interns from various majors on campus. I instituted the program goal of increasing CDI engagement in the office through a project-based model, mainly through utilizing the established component of matching our interns with an office mentor from our career consultant team. Going into my second year of supervising the program, I focused on expanding CDI engagement to assist with office-wide projects and resource creation, as well as focusing more on individual intern development and continuing training throughout the academic year.Another area of demonstrated leadership in the office was heading the Career Guide committee since summer 2015. Since then, I led a team of five to seven consultants in updating design, content and organization of the 52-page resource. For two summers, we re-designed the guide; I was solely responsible for layout design, utilizing Adobe InDesign. My last summer designing the guide (2018), we focused on incorporating student and Career Center staff suggestions for updated content. I also had the pleasure of serving as an office mentor to a colleague in the office, who I partnered with on office-wide diversity initiatives as it relates to career development.

In this role, I primarily served the career needs for all Grady College and pre-Grady students at UGA. I met with students on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: choosing a Grady College major, career options with chosen major, resume and cover letter updates, personal branding, creating digital portfolios, interview prep & mock interviews, salary negotiation, evaluating job offers and applying to graduate school. I met with students in various formats including: one-hour individual appointments, quick walk-in hours in the Career Center and quick drop-in hours in the Journalism Building. In addition, I presented general career workshops as part of the office-wide Arch Ready Professionalism Certificate, as well as industry-specific programming—mainly career panels featuring employers and alumni in the communications industry.A primary part of this role was building relationships with campus colleagues, particularly Grady College faculty and staff, to better serve career needs for Grady students. This included meetings with Grady colleagues, classroom presentations and inclusion in Grady College events where appropriate.The Journalism and Mass Communication Career Day was my main collaboration effort with Grady College. Partnering with the Grady College Director of Experiential Programs, I focused on student marketing and preparation, while my Grady colleague focused on employer relations. Together with our event partner, the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, we developed an employer sponsorship package to expand employer engagement during and after the event.A part of the office-wide diversity committee, I also assisted with serving the career needs for women on campus by partnering with the Institute for Women’s Studies on their programming where appropriate, and planning industry-specific “Women in…” career panels, featuring women employers and alumni sharing advice from their perspective and experiences as women in their chosen field.

I assisted the communications department through writing news releases and PSAs, managing press clippings, updating media lists, updating event listings, and pitching local and national media.

As an executive board member of the Women's Studies Student Organization, I worked with other board members to plan Take Back the Night. It's a community event that raises awareness for sexual and domestic violence, and fundraises for two local non-profit organizations.Tasks during both years included event logistics, outreach to local organizations for event attendance and participation, pitching local media and developing messaging and a theme for the event. Coverage that came from media pitches are below.

I was chosen as one of five students in my graduating class to create and implement a strategic public relations campaign. It was implemented in February 2013, and focused on anti-bullying in the Athens area. We partnered with various local organizations to reach our target audiences of teens, college students and their influencers, like parents and teachers. For the campaign, I drafted goals, objectives and messaging, created social media content, pitched Athens and Atlanta media, facilitated in-depth interviews and focus groups and distributed campaign messages through events with our partners.